Spent - Low income worker simulation

[Leonid Brozhnev]

http://playspent.org

Try to make ends meet with $1000 over the period of a month. Become a low income earner, rack up bills, get fucked by your landlord and get fired for trying to join unions.

I would say the game exaggerates a little (not too much) and there's not a critique of capitalism in sight, but it's still and good visual representation of what too many people have to put up with in life.

[Tablo]

Got through with only $33, no car, and no electricity... :(

[Fulanito de Tal]

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h111/durancm/PovertyTest.jpg

And my kid got everything! Superdad is here! Except that were staying at the shelter next month, we have not electricity and if I get pulled over, I'm assed out like a g-string.

But, I didn't have the option to walk to work, make friends with other parents to help babysit, or have sex for money....err, I mean sell drugs...errr, I mean start my own business that's tax free, ....errr....fuck.

[Lord Testicles]

http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/3954/58543251.jpg

Not bad, expect that I lost my job in the last week for talking to a union organiser. :(

[Quail]

I had $651 at the end of the month, but I got fired for talking to the union guy and I was a really shitty parent.

[Panda Tse Tung]

$54,- left and a debt of $225,- with a friend.

[Sam_b]

Got through it with $600 left but loads of bills.

[Aloysius]

I got through with $91 and in need of dental work and the electric bill...

[Psy]

http://playspent.org

Try to make ends meet with $1000 over the period of a month. Become a low income earner, rack up bills, get fucked by your landlord and get fired for trying to join unions.

I would say the game exaggerates a little (not too much) and there's not a critique of capitalism in sight, but it's still and good visual representation of what too many people have to put up with in life.

I find it sad you don't have the option to organize a wildcat strike over the company reducing your hours for not opting into piece work, they don't give you chance to get fired for being a real threat to the capitalist bastard.

[Bright Banana Beard]

This is pretty much how my life is, except I am unemployed.

[bcbm]

$1028, with a suffering pet an unpaid cell phone bill and some dicks threatening to repossess my car.

and i stole money from my kid

[Pirate Utopian]

$1532 with two IOU's that I'm never going to pay to his moronic ass and an aching tooth.
I actually made money. :thumbup1:

[Rafiq]

This makes me want to live under Stalinism

[Tablo]

This makes me want to live under Stalinism
I know what you mean.

[Martin Blank]

Wow. They actually made a game about my life. But, of course, I'm not getting any royalties. Bastards.

[Rusty Shackleford]

now i know how it feels to be my mother.

[ed miliband]

now i know how it feels to be my mother.

Ya.

At least for the time being, hopefully things get better for her. :(

[Metacomet]

Glad I am not in THIS bad of a situation, but if my mother loses her job we'll be in it. (along with our health insurance, my fathers chemotherapy bills would be real fun then)

[Jazzratt]

I wish jobs were that easy to get in real life and didn't involve comepeting with 60 other applicants for 59 rejection letters and the grand prize of a shit job.

[Il Medico]

I got through with $455. My tooth is probably gonna fall out soon though. I also probably killed my mother.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

I don't want to play this game. $1000 would be nice to make in a month, because currently I only make about $840. Everyday I'm closer and closer to selling my awesome collections. Kill me now.

/whine